Gender, Women's Health Care Concerns and Other Social Factors in Health and Health Care

Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld is Professor Emerita in the Sociology Program, Sanford School of Social/Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, USA. Her research areas are medical sociology and aging with special focus on health policy, health care utilization and health behavior. She is co-editor of Health and Associate Editor-In-Chief of the American Journal of Health Promotion. Jennie is a past chair of Medical Sociology Section, American Sociological Association and past President of Sociologists for Women in Society.

Part 1: Introduction to VolumeGender, Women and Other Social Factors in Health and Health Care; Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld 
Part 2: Gender and Cancer Related Issues
1. Growth from Trauma: Gender Differences in Experience of Cancer and Long-Term Survivorship; Karen Powroznik, Irena Stepanikova and Karen S. Cook 

2. Younger Women with Breast Cancer and Treatment Decision Making: Rethinking Patient Involvement and Empowerment; Karrie Ann Snyder, Alexander Tate and Ethan Roubenoff 
3. Role of Cancer History and Gender in Major Health Insurance Transitions: A Longitudinal Nationally Representative Study; Katherine S. Virgo, Chun Chieh Lin, Amy Davidoff, Gery P. Guy Jr, Janet S. de Moor, Donatus U. Ekwueme, Erin E. Kent, Neetu Chawla and K. Robin Yabroff 
Part 3: Pregnancy and Childbirth
4. Dignity in Childbirth: U.S. Women’s Perception of Respect and Autonomy in Hospital Births; Jessica Liddell and Katherine M. Johnson 
5. Relationship Matters: An Examination of Educational and Racial Disparities in Unintended Pregnancies; Andrea Bertotti 
Part 4: Use of Health Care and Gender
6. The Impact of Gender in the Decision Making Process to Undergo Certain Surgeries Compared to Uncertain Surgeries; DaJuan Ferrell 
7. Trust in Health Care: Understanding the Role of Gender and Racial Differences Between Patients and Providers; Celeste Campos-Castillo 
8. Weight Loss Surgery Patients’ Gender Differentiated Experience of Vanity Stigma; Patricia Drew 
9. Are there Gender Differences in the Capability to Use Facilities of Care? A Multilevel Analysis of 22 Countries; Rania Fuadovna Valeeva and Piet Bracke 

Part 5: Gender Issues Outside of the US and Europe
10. Gender Differences in Health Care Utilization Among Older Adults in Barbados; Nekehia T. Quashie 
11. Burundian Female Survivors of War (SOW): Views of Health Before, During and Post Conflict; Jenelle R Walker, Jeanne Nizigiyimana, Oluwasola Banke-Thomas, Eric Niragira, Yvette Nijimbere, and Crista Johnson-Agbakwu 
Part 6: Other Gender Topics
12. Health and Gender: Quantifying the Unquantifiable; L.F. Carver 
13. Handled Without Care: Women’s Health Experience in Jail; Laura McKendy